I was on the local

I was on the local news last night. Weird eh? A week or two ago I wrote a letter to the local paper regarding the abundance of dangerous, unsafe vehicles on the road down here. I suggested the Sheriff’s department provide the public with a hotline, email address or website that we can use to easily report unsafe vehicles. Florida has no annual safety inspections of vehicles so people drive cars that are literally falling apart. Anyway this letter happened to be published yesterday. Coincidently, yesterday there was a big truck accident that killed the driver where his load of plywood was not securely fastened and began pulling off the truck, causing the accident. Evidently a woman reporter saw my letter and wanted to use it as a tie in to the truck wreck story. She evidently had been waiting for some sort of opportunity to do a piece about the lack of safety of many vehicles in our area. I got home from the gym and heard a message from her asking for me to contact her. I did and she said she wanted to come out to do a quick interview regarding the letter. Surprised, I said sure. She showed up 45 minutes later. Both she and her camera man were very nice. We talked a bit beforehand and then shot a quick interview. I was very nervous but tried to give answers that sounded credible and genuine. However the main point of my letter was about vehicles that had obvious safety failures. The point of her story was primarily all of the construction and lawn maintenance trucks that don’t secure their loads and have debris flying out onto the roadways. So in the final piece on the news they used one sentence. It sounded pertinent and fit in with the piece so I guess it was ok. I am gonna rip it to a video clip just to have around. My 5 seconds of fame, woopee.

Cool front blew in today it is soooooo nice right now. Mid 70’s and low humidity, perfect.